Last name: POISSON
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POISSON : This last name is indexed 500,060 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
POISSON : 1: French: from poisson ‘fish’ a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman or fish seller or a nickname for someone supposedly resembling a fish. In North America this surname is sometimes translated into English as Fish and Fisher.2: Altered form of French Poissant.
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